Calgary Property Assessments

Calgary Property Assessments

The assessed values of residential, non-residential, and farmland properties in Calgary. The properties in this dataset consist of Calgary lands that have a registered parcel at Alberta’s Land Titles Office. Properties that are on The City of Calgary’s annual property assessment rolls, but excluded from this dataset, are titled parking stalls, titled storage units, machinery & equipment property, and linear property (as defined in the Municipal Government Act). This dataset can be downloaded from here.

For detailed property assessment information, visit https://assessmentsearch.calgary.ca

Table of contents

We can also use the community boundaries for the city of Calgary from here.

Exploratory Data Analysis

First, of all the dataset includes the following assessment roll years.

In particular, in each year:

Consider the assessed values only in the current year:

For the most expensive unit we have,

Average Value (the Current Year)

The following function can be used for calculating the Average Value of each community.

Average Value (Non-residential)

Average Value (Residential)

Average Value (Farmland)

Average Value (Machinery And Equipment)

Assessed Average Value by Sector

Assessed Average Value by Community Structure

Maps

Assessed Average Value by Community

Asset Values in Each Community

We can define the following heatmap to show the Assessed values in each community. In each case, the to fifty most values asses are also marked on the map.

For example, consider the Seton community.

Similarly, for the Brentwood community, we have,

Predictions

Unfortunately, the given data are not suitable for any forms of predictions since we mainly know the location of an asset, and their classes and values. Hopefully, in the future, this study can be extended.


References

  1. Property Assessments Dataset